LOVE LIGHTS MORE FIRES THAN HATE EXTINGUISHES

"Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes" is inscribed on a paving slab in Jack Kerouac Alley
in San Francisco (next to the City Lights Bookstore).

Quote from ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
American author, poet, involved with New Thought, Spiritualism and the Rosicrucian society.

Also well known for her poem SOLITUTE with these opening lines.

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone."




I'm coming to the end of a class I've been taking all summer online.
It is Mental Muscle:  16 Weeks of Spiritual Bootcamp.

To be quite frank....it has literally kicked my spiritual ass.

Each night I have had to choose love over hate.  Love does light a fire inside you to do better, to be kinder, to express more of it.  Hate just extinguishes anything in its path.  

For years I just hated myself and my life. 
I didn't really understanding New Thought principles or the very idea that my thoughts created my reality.  I went about life destroying everything in my path. 
The very idea that like attracts like was a foreign concept to me.
The idea that I could create something different began to emerge when I attended my first Sunday service at AGAPE and heard Rev Dr. Michael Beckwith.

Today I am more cautious of my thoughts, words and deeds.
Today I choose love.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote this over 90 years ago.  Think about that.
Peace and blessings,
Gerry